MAILS BY CIPHER

Hawera Star, 13 January 1930, Page 5

MAILS BY CIPHER

TELEGRAPH IN FACSIMILE CLOSER LINK WITH HOME SIX MINUTE service (United Press Association —By Electric Tclegrapc Copyright.) LONDON, Jan. 11. “ Within five years the hulk of business correspondence to New Zealand will be telegraphed in facsimile,” declares Mr. Morgan Cyprian O’Brien, an Auckland man who came to London in 1925 with inventions. His inventions included a safety window for jewellers and a safety door, both of which are now marketed. A Bond Street firm has installed the window device, which consists of a heavy steel blind falling the instant the window is broken and thus precludes the smash-and-grab raids. The manager of the firm stated thieves raiding the next, door firm recently were baulked by this guillotine, notice of which is prominently displayed. “It is unreasonable nowadays that some letters should take six weeks to go to the Dominion,” said Mr. O’Brien “The. solution, .which must be quicker than air mail, is telegraphic facsimile transmission. Th e post, office here can photograph the letter and transmit the photographic matter in six minutes, not six weeks, securing seeroev by a device oil which I am now working. “The device will consist, of a cipher 'typewriter which .will make a simultaneous cipher of the, English copies. Though the message is .ordinarily typed nobody but the proper recipients can decode the cipher.” Mr. O’Brien has many other prospective inventions, including an antiaircraft gunnery device. He encountered -many difficulties in London —but he lias now floated a company.